UW baseball, after winning the series opener on Friday, dropped the next two at Oregon State, which now has a two-game lead atop the Pac-12 with three games left for both teams. “I told the guys we’re close,” UW coach Lindsay Meggs said of closing the gap between the teams. “This is a healthy rivalry. They don’t like us, we don’t like them, but we sure respect what they have done and I think they respect us.”

UW dropped three spots to No. 8 in the Baseball America poll today. Oregon State jumped to No. 1. The Huskies (38-13, 20-7) host UCLA (23-29, 10-17), the defending national champion, to wrap up the regular season this weekend. The Beavers travel to USC.